Cuff-button



.1. SULLIVAN. CUFF BUTTON.

UNITED STATES MICHAEL JOI-IN SULLIVAN, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

' CTIEF-BUTTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 31, 1921.

Application led September 30, 1920. Serial No. 413,731.

T 0 all wko/m, t may concern.'

Be it lrnown that I, MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident yof Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and Stateof Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Cuff-Button, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

In connection with cuff buttons, it is a well appreciated fact that'considerable difculty has been experienced in that it has been difficultfor the wearer to release the cuff buttons to permit the opening of thecuff.

With this in view, cuff buttons have been placed upon the market whichinclude two separable sections adapted to be connected substantiallyintermediate their two outer edges. Each section is applied to one ofthe button holes of the cuff of the shirt, and retain this member inapplied position. Upon it being desired to open the cuff however, thismay instantly be done upon separating the sections of the buttonthereof.

Considerable difliculty has been experienced in connection with thisclass of device, in that the buttons of this type have been difcult tomanufacture, and the separable connection provided has been either sorigid as to render it extremely difficult to separate the sections ofthe cuff button, or so loose, that these sections have oftenaccidentally become detached one from the other, to the discomture ofthe wearer.

With this in mind, I have constructed a cuff-button which shall beextremely simple in construction, so that the same may lend itselfreadily to manufacture, and in which a separable connection between theparts is effected, which will permit of the ready detachment of one ofthe sections from the other, although at the same time holding thesesections against any accidental detachment.

Reference is had to the attached sheet of drawings as illustrating onepractical embodiment of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is asectional side view showing the parts of the cuff buttons in appliedposition.

Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate the parts as shown in Fig. 1, but showing thesame detached one from the other.

ed to extend through and receive the button f hole of a cuff of a shirt.

Similar t0 this, a second section of the cuff button includes also abase portion 12, and a barrel 13 serving the same purpose as that of thebarrel 11. In addition to the t base portion provided in this lattersection, a face plate 111 may conveniently be associated with the outerface of the same, such face plate being preferably ornamental and beingcapable of receiving the initials of the user, if this is desired.

Contact plates 15 and 16 respectively, are aiiixed to the free edges ofthe barrels 11 and 13, conveniently by means of an up-turned flangeportion 17 adjacent the edges of these contact plates, which flangeportion envelops the free edges of the barrels 11 and 13.

Aftixed to one of the contact plates, and conveniently forming anintegral portion of the same, is the male portion of a separablefastener. This part of the fastener conveniently includes a stud 18terminating in a head 19, such stud being conveniently split, as hasbeen indicated at 20, to permit of a compressing of the head 0f thesame.

It is now to be noted, that a spring 19 is arranged within the head 19of the stud, such spring preferably including an M- shaped body portionhaving its limbs engaging the inner faces of the head at diametricallyopposite points, and intermediate the supports 20 thereof. Directly tothe rear of the head, and approximately intermediate the ends of thestud 18, an annular groove 21 is provided, for a purpose hereinaftermore fully specified.

.A second contact plate 16 preferably carries the female portion of theseparable fastener, such portion presenting a rearwardly extending wall22, forming a socket 23, the inner face of said wall being formed withan inwardly extending flange 24;, at a position approximatelyintermediate its extremities.

It will now be understood, as has been Vaforedesoribed, that the cuffbutton openings of the shirt conveniently eng-age the barrels 11 and 13,and it will be understood that little likelihood exists of theseportions becoming displaced. A moving of the parts to effect anintroduction of the head 19 into the socket 28, and a continuance ofthis movement, will result in the sections of the head 19 becomingcompressed upon being engaged by the flange 24, subsequent to which theportions of the fastener will seat, the flange 24 projecting into thegroove 21.

By this construction, any accidental disconnection of the parts of theculi? button will be precluded although, as will readily be appreciated,the same may be readily separated if this is desired.

Obviously numerous modifications of structure might readily be resorted.to without in the least departing from the spirit of my invention, whichl claim as- A cuff button, including a pair of sections Veach comprisinga base, a barrel secured to said base, a contact plate secured to thefree edges of said barrel, one of said contact plates being formed witha rearwardly extending wall presenting a socket, said socket beingformed substantially intermediate its depth with an inwardly extendingflange, the second of said contact plates being formed with a studterminating in a head, said stud being split throughout its entirelength, and being formed with a groove substantially intermediate itsextremities,

the said flange being adapted to co-act with said groove, andanlVI-shaped spring arranged within the head of said stud for expandingthe split portion of the same.

MICHAEL JOHN SULLIVAN.

